The ancestral mansion and lands Julia inherits from her aunts comes with a price: regular tribute to the lord of the forest in exchange for his protection. The Green Man regains his power when Julia freely submits to him, finding true ecstasy in the pleasure and pain. When a shady developer threatens Julia, her guardian spirit saves her, and her gratitude comes in the form of the perverse rituals she's grown to crave. This Gothic BDSM short story is Andrea Dale at her finest "Return to Wildwood" originally appeared in Sacred Exchange: Stories of Transcendence and Spirituality in Dominance and Submission (Blue Moon Books, 2003).